Blooming Prairie High School

Coordinates: 43°52′05″N 93°03′50″W / 43.8680182°N 93.0638099°W^[1]

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Blooming Prairie High School
Location

202 4th Avenue Northwest Blooming Prairie MN 55917
Coordinates	43°52′05″N 93°03′50″W / 43.8680182°N 93.0638099°W / 43.8680182; -93.0638099^[1]
Information
Type	Public
Established	1868
School district	Blooming Prairie Schools #756
Principal	John Worke
Staff	25.04 (FTE)^[2]
Grades	7-12
Enrollment	375 (2022-2023)^[2]
Student to teacher ratio	14.98^[2]
Color(s)	Black, white and silver ^[3]
Nickname	Awesome Blossoms^[3]
Website	http://www.blossoms.k12.mn.us/BLOSSOMSK12MN/

Blooming Prairie High School is a Public school located in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. The high school teaches students in grades 7-12, and has a student body of approximately 350, with a student-teacher ratio of 12:1.^[4]

School system

The Blooming Prairie Public School System consists of Blooming Prairie Elementary School and Blooming Prairie High School. The school district consists of a combined student body of approximately 950, with a student-teacher ratio of 14:1.^[5] The Minnesota state average is a 16:1.

Athletics

The High School has a comprehensive, year-round, gender-balanced sports program. This includes football, volleyball, cheerleading, and cross-country in the Fall; wrestling and both boys' and girls' basketball in the Winter; and softball (for girls), baseball (for boys), boys' and girls' golf, and boys' and girls' track teams in the Spring.^[6] The Blooming Prairie football team was the 2010 conference champion. They also were State champs in 2019.^[6]

School spirit

Blooming Prairie High showed its school spirit in March 2011 when it showed support for Jordan Ressler, a junior who died in a motor vehicle accident in November 2010, by displaying the University of Texas logo in a human form and by wearing the distinctive orange clothing of the team he loved.^[7]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blooming Prairie High School
^ ^a ^b ^c "BLOOMING PRAIRIE SECONDARY". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 2, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Blooming Prairie High School". Minnesota State High School League. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
^ http://www.trulia.com/schools/MN-Blmng_Prairie/Blooming_Prairie_Junior_Senior_High_School/ ^{[dead link‍]}
^ http://www.bloomingprairie.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={196628E5-F873-445D-8D02-7B82D8A41BCC} ^{[bare URL]}
^ ^a ^b RS School Today website Blooming Prairie High School Athletics department web page Archived 2015-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. Use drop down boxes to access individual sports. Accessed March 24, 2011.
^ See, e.g.: Amanda Lillie, "Showing support for Jordan Ressler," March 7, 2011, Austin (Minnesota) Daily Herald; found at Austin Daily Herald website. AP, "Minnesota town remembers teen with Texas logo", March 7, 2011; found at Associated Press on WBKT-TV website^{[permanent dead link‍]}. Caitlin Perrone, "Human UT logo honors deceased longhorn fan: Community members from Minnesota gathered Sunday to honor an avid UT fan that passed away in November by creating a human UT logo in the snow." The Horn, March 9, 2011 and updated March 14, 2011; found at Read the Horn website Archived 2012-03-21 at the Wayback Machine. "Remembering Jordan Ressler," March 6, 2011; found at KAAL-TV website. All accessed March 24, 2011.

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